FBA 2025 Season

Romeo & Juliet
May 3-4, 2025
National Hispanic Cultural Center

Festival Ballet Albuquerque presents an original production, Romeo & Juliet. An original production of the two star-crossed lovers by William Shakespeare. The story is retold about an age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party.

Saturday, May 3, 2025  @ 7:00 pm
Sunday, May 4, 2025  @ 2:00 pm

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Romeo and Juliet
A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, the County Paris. With the help of Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for the couple to marry the next day, but Romeo’s attempt to halt a street fight leads to the death of Juliet’s own cousin, Tybalt, for which Romeo is banished. In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo’s corpse beside her and kills herself. The grieving family agree to end their feud.

CHOREOGRAPHER FOR ROMEO AND JULIET

Alex Ossadnik, a native of former East Germany was trained under government scholarship on the Palucca School in Dresden from 1979-1987. During his performing career he danced for companies in Weimar, Germany, Bordeaux, France, Nevada Dance Theatre and Oregon Ballet Theatre. He cofounded numerous companies, including Santa fe Festival Ballet and Ballet pro Musica. Not a stranger to Albuquerque’s dance scene, his work is known to be approachable and engaging for all audiences.  While having choreographed for Festival Ballet Albuquerque several times, “Romeo and Juliet” is his first major collaboration to the iconic score by Sergei Prokofiev.

The Nutcracker in The Land of Enchantment

December 19 – 21, 2025
National Hispanic Cultural Center with a live orchestra!

“…This version of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker will take your senses out of the box with vivid Victorian costumes, outstanding choreography, unique props… startling pyrotechnics… and Tchaikovsky’s classic score.…”
–Marisa Abeyta- (Albuquerque Journal)

Choreographed by Patricia Dickinson Wells.

Friday, Dec. 19, 2025 @ TBD
Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025 @ TBD
Sunday, Dec. 21, @ TBD